South Yorkshire Times, September 2nd 1944
Killed In Action
Mr. and Mrs. S. Bellamy, 4, Thornhill Road, Edgerton, formerly of Wath, have received official information that their son, Sgt. J. M. Bellamy, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment, has been killed in action.
He joined the Army in 1933, and had served in Malta and India.
He had previously been wounded in the leg in the early part of the campaign in Burma.
From C.W.G.C.:
Lance Serjeant JOHN MINARD BELLAMY
Service Number: 4612801
Regiment & Unit/Ship Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment) 7th Bn.
Date of Death Died 29 July 1944
Age 29 years old
Buried or commemorated at RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY I. D. 35. France
Additional Info
Son of Sidney and Ada Bellamy, of Southport, Lancashire.
Personal Inscription
IN EVERLOVING MEMORY OF A DEAR SON AND BROTHER, RESTING WHERE NO SHADOWS FAL